Review of The Foundations of Experimental Psychology

Abstract

Reviews the book, The Foundations of Experimental Psychology by Carl Murchison (Ed.) (1929). This is the first volume of a projected series of handbooks for experimental psychology. It clearly shows the changes that have taken place since Titchener's qualitative and quantitative manuals. In this review little more can be done than to enumerate the topics. Twenty-three contributors participated and among these are to be found the investigators who are recognized leaders in their respective fields. Not all the articles are of equal merit. Some of the illustrations are so poor as compared with the generally high character of the typography that they should have been redrawn. The references to the literature are not equally complete, but they open the way. The names index and the topical index are designed to cover the range of the treatise. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)